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Originally posted by LtgDzinr
I sent an e-mail to WFLA addressing the lack of HD and the 4x3 streaching. This makes the 8th or 9th time I have attempted to make contact with anyone @ 8. It is obvious they do not care. I was going to watch 3rd Watch tonight but I can't lock a signal. And I live about 2 miles from the tower and have an antenna rotor. WFLA sucks. I will not watch them again. |
They probally have no idea who you are or what you want.
TV stations barely understand the internet, much less email.
When you e-mail the station, you get sent into a mail queue
run by a low paid customer service person who will consider
email to be their lowest priority. Its unlikely that person
has any idea what HDTV is, so it gets filed in "other". I have
sent in specific receiption problems by e-mail and received
no answer, much less a general request like "why don't you
do HDTV". Its a little to overbroad to say these people are
stupid. Try to imagine sorting mail by the 100's where letters
are like:
"that Ally Mcbeal -- she dresses like a tramp"
"I bought a radio shack antenna. Where does it go on the
back of the TV ?"
"Are you sending subliminal messages to my dog ?"
In order to petition for HDTV by your station, you have to call,
you have to get a person, and you have to avoid being
catagorized too quickly. Calling them and saying "why don't you
have HDTV yet ?" will simply mark you as that avsforum nut
who won't stop calling.
Imagine how much more effective it is to them if you say
something like "I got my HDTV today, I am not getting HDTV
from your station. Am I doing something wrong ? Oh ? When
do you plan on offering that ?
This at least puts them in the embarrasing position of trying
to tell a new HDTV owner that the station "does not consider
HDTV technology to be a success", especially effective if you
mention what you paid.
If enough people do that, something will be accomplished.